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The nonfiction book, Nickel and Dimed, written by the undercover journalist Barbara Ehrenreich. Ehrenreich goes out to investigate what it’s like to be a low-wage worker and how it’s like for them to get by in America. Ehrenreich does this by leaving her life of well paying job as journalists, forgets the fact that she has a Ph.D. in biology along with her normal life, and sets out to working six to seven dollars an hour in different places by doing different jobs. Along the way of her…

My career goal is to become a registered nurse in the state of Oregon. I plan on attending Portland Community College and receiving my Degree of Arts. I then plan on transferring to a applicable Nursing program. In the near feature I would like to transfer into one of the nursing programs at University of Portland and San Francisco State University. Since I was a child I have always had an inkling that I was destined to be some sort of doctor, nurse, or medical practitioner. The idea of helping…

The spread of the performing arts, children, teens, and adults in the 21st century have gained an interest in learning how to play musical instruments. Studies have shown that people who not only listen to music, but play a musical instrument themselves, use more parts of the brain. Not only can it prevent them for getting a disease that affects their ability to think, but it also causes people to learn at rapid speed. “The human brain is one of the most complex organs in the human body. It…

In Delirium by Lauren Oliver, Lena, a teenager, learns love is not a disease. To begin with, Lena lives in Portland where love is a disease and is considered larceny. The government gives everyone an evaluation so they can be paired with someone compatible with them and they are also given a surgical procedure to guarantee one wont love. Lena is scheduled to be cured in a couple months to come and her evaluation is just days away. In the beginning, it is the day of Lena’s evaluation and she is…

The one thing that everyone in our world today craves for is certainty. As a photographer, I have created a visual escape for others though many years of exploring the creativity of the photographic eye. Before my attendance with this school I had only searched for a ways to provide certainty through community service; this physically provided less fortunate with that value of certainty. I have always thought photography to be powerful means of providing certainty that we all crave in our lives…

Phil Knight was born on February 4th, 1938 in Portland Oregon. Phil Knight attended the University of Oregon and received a bachelor’s degree in journalism and later he attended Stanford graduate school of business to receive his maters degree. Knight wanted a job during high school, his father refused to give him a job where he worked; The Oregon Journal. So Knight went to the Oregonian, another local newspaper and worked the night shift reporting sports scores. He would run 7 miles everyday…

The Negative Effects of Homelessness in Portland Majd Baghdadi 11132015 Independent Research Writing Portland State University Homelessness in Portland is a large issue. People who are homeless are affected in negative ways; crime involvement, which increase homeless arrest rates and affect hospital capacities based on the crime rate that some homeless make, and do crimes to avoid staying on the streets, health problems which affect the homeless by sharing needles for drug use and…

Barbara Ehrenreich spend a month in each of three places—Key West, Portland-Maine, and Minneapolis The novel Nickel and Dimed is written by researcher Barbara Ehrenreich, a middle aged upper-class woman. This novel details Ehrenreich’s study of the average, lower class, working woman. The author knows though, that she truly couldn't perfectly conduct this experiment to replicate her life as the “average woman”. She did not have children to bog her down and deplete her salary. The main point of…

Food program (NEFP): The Northeast Emergency Food Program (NEFP) is a vital part of the community ministry network of the Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon (EMO). They meet the urgent food need of the north and northeast Portland neighbors, primarily people living in east Portland. However, they don’t have any geographic boundaries, meaning that they are helping people from all over the world. Each month, they provide services to over 800 families by offering nourishment in the form of welcoming…

of a third child, James, in 1951. Although half a continent separated Audrey from her beloved Aunt Bessie, with frequent telephone conversations and regular trips, Bessie remained Audrey’s lifelong confident. Typically, Bessie traveled west to Portland for an extended visit with Audrey and her family in the wintertime, whereas the Grigg family traveled back to Bradley, South Dakota in the summer to visit relatives. In addition to her emotional bond with Bessie, Audrey maintained close…